My dad has been a firefighter for forty years. He took me to a fire once when I was five and ever since that day I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up...

A firehose.

A hat.

I have a jacket as well. Keeps me warm.

You do? Me too.

You live in Texas why do you have a jacket?

Because on the days I'm not riding horses or chewing tobacco or wearing a cowboy hat/sombrero, I tend to slip on my jacket if it starts hitting 60 degrees.

I've been making a decent amount of sales lately so I've had some extra spending cash. I found three online sellers that had excellent prices for full length LPs that were a bit more obscure. I had the last three mornings/afternoons off so I decided to listen to as much as I could in order to get great deals on music I like. Ended up getting a sh*t ton of stuff. It's nice to feed my addiction cheaply.

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Leapling - Vacant Page (LP, Ltd, cle)
GR - A Reverse Age (LP, Album, Ltd, Num)
Gary Wrong Group / Wizzard Sleeve - Halloween Violence (7")
A Flower Kollapsed - A Flower Kollapsed (10", Album, W/Lbl, Gre + CD, Album)
Sassan - Chiyoko (LP, Album)

Total = $26.95

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The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Between Bodies (12", EP, Hal)
Oxbow - Songs For The French (12")
Liars - Fins To Make Us More Fish-like (10", Red)
Dark Dark Dark - Flood Tide Original Soundtrack (2xLP, Album)
The Black Heart Procession - Blood Bunny / Black Rabbit (LP, MiniAlbum, Ltd)
Free Moral Agents - The Special 12 Singles Series (7", Single, Ltd, Yel)

Total = $28.78

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Citay - Remixes (LP)
Trophy Wife - Patience Fury (LP, Album)
Pala - We Don't Exist (LP, Album, Ltd, Pin)
The Judas Horse - Holy War (LP)
Windmills By The Ocean - Windmills By The Ocean (LP, Album)
Mourn - Mourn (LP, Gat)
Tomas Barfod - Love Me (LP, Album, Ltd, Cle + 12", S/Sided)
Bloodpheasant - Traum (LP)
Love Tan - Miscellaneous Night Feelings (LP)
PVT - Homosapien (LP, Album, Whi)
Survival - Survival (LP, Album)
Titles - Dirt Bell (LP, Ltd, Num)
Wild Moth - Over, Again (LP, Album, Whi)
Yuck - Glow & Behold (LP, Album)
Dirty Dishes - Guilty (LP, Album)
Ettrick - Feeders Of Ravens (LP, Ltd)
Crown Larks - Blood Dancer (LP, Album)

Total = $52.50

Deals. Deals. Deals.

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Colouring, Stereo Honey, Cosmo Sheldrake, Isaac Gracie and The Ninth Wave.

Never heard of any of these.

They are all new 7" EP's or whatever, produced almost specifically for the service.

Oh sh*t, I didn't even mention the subscription service. Flying Vinyl.

Just found a copy of Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad in a collection I bought for $100.

I just put it up for sale for $180.

I'm good at this.

Tacking onto Goofle's post: What are some other good vinyl subscription services? I want to get a gift for a vinyl geek in my life.

I use Wax & Stamp but I live in the UK so you might wanna search around for a sub tailored to where you're at.

Flying Vinyl, Vinyl Me Please, Trax & Wax etc

If you like Wine, go for Stylus.

Speaking of Vinyl, recently pulled out a load of records from the garage, think this is most of it but there is still quite a bit in there;

https://i.imgur.com/LVSz7qN.jpg


Picked up these 2016 reissues a couple weeks ago;

https://i.imgur.com/x47DjKX.jpg

You're going to warp the sh*t out of those if you leave them stacked like that. I hope you're not planning to.

Frown. I'm subbed to Vinyl Me Please. I swap almost every month for a jazz record as their exclusives usually suck. Last months though was fun. Purple/pink copy of Sorcerer by Miles. They have a good amount of records to swap with. I got a really sweet copy of Johnny Griffin's A Blowin' Sesson.

It ain't the best but it's certainly good if you like a bunch of their titles.

Ofc not dude, still waiting for a couple Cabinet's for em to live in.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/collections/kallax/

Nice haul today, mostly dolla bin

Taj Mahal Travellers - Live at Moderna Maseet in Stockholm, July 1971
Blancmage - Mangetout (no idea what it is but it had a cool cover)
Gene Krupa - Percussion King
Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant
Shining Path - s/t (bought because of cover and mint condition)
Someone's album/book club thing, don't know much about it but I expect classical
Bozay Attila - Contemporary Hungarian Music
Daisy Dee - This Beat is Technotronic 92 remix
Beloved Jewish Melodies
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past (had a cool but beat to hell book style)
Exodus and Other Great Themes (got it for the 3rd man theme)
Stanley Black & the London Festival Orchestra - Spain Vol. 2
25 Polka Greats
Al Di Meola - Land of the Midnight Sun (not a huge fan of this but couldn't pass up the price)
Stravinsky - Rite of Spring

Was very close to picking a Last Poets album but Taj Mahal Travellers won out for mt non-dollar bin item.

Just bought a copy of the reissue of today is the day's in the name of God lp earlier, ****s dope

Damn! This is a ****ing gem. Local noise rock group with krautrock and This Heat influences all over the place. I'm gonna track these dudes down and jam with them.

Raid them dolla bins folks, you can get some good ****. I found a Pharoah Sanders record with a cut of You've Got to Have Freedom on it before.

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Some recent purchases. Coincidentally they all seem to be playing at my venue over the next couple of months :rolleyes:

i decided yesterday in the shower that after I finish my top songs on spotify last year.

im going to go through my vinyl collection and review the albums. because most of them i just listened to a few songs I knew where good or just listened to a few times.

I'm bored and haven't really posted my personal pickups as of last few months. These are records I have zero plans on selling because they're rad....

Ahmad Jamal Trio ‎– Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing
The Allman Brothers Band ‎– The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East. Reissue I picked up at a record show.
The Allman Brothers Band ‎– The Allman Brothers Band - Found in a collection I bought.
Arcade Fire ‎– Funeral - 180 gram reissue. Only good AF album and an album of my youth.
Arctic Monkeys ‎– Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Also an album of my youth and the only album of theirs I like.
A Tribe Called Quest ‎– The Low End Theory - Remastered Reissue I found at work. Employee discount.
The B-52's ‎– The B-52's - Original press.
Bob Dylan ‎– Blood On The Tracks - One of the few Dylan albums I wouldn't sell.
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band ‎– Safe As Milk - 2013 Mono Reissue. Traded a Lou Donaldson album for this.
Cinemechanica ‎– Cinemechanica - Picked this up at their show in Brooklyn.
Cloud Nothings ‎– Cloud Nothings
Deafheaven ‎– Sunbather - Pink Baby/Yellow Piss color variants
Deftones ‎– Diamond Eyes
Digital Underground ‎– The Humpty Dance - 12' Single I found in a collection I bought.
The Dillinger Escape Plan With Mike Patton ‎– Irony Is A Dead Scene - Reissue
The Earl Hines Trio ‎– Fatha
Earl Sweatshirt ‎– I Don't Like ****, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
Frank Zappa ‎– You Are What You Is - Found in a collection I bought.
Frank Zappa / The Mothers Of Invention ‎– Uncle Meat - Found at work. Employee discount. 2013 remastered 180 gram reissue.
Fugazi ‎– Fugazi - I sold this a few months back and immediately regretted it. Remastered resissue.
Fugees ‎– The Score - VinylMePleas Club Reissue, Gold & Black Split
Iggy Pop ‎– Lust For Life - 2009 180 gram reissue.
Johnny Griffin ‎– A Blowing Session - VinylMePlease Edition, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Amber w/ Black Smoke, 180g
Jonny Greenwood, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ‎– Inherent Vice: Selections From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Limited Promo 10' inch I found in a bargain bin at a store in New Paltz, NY.
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard with Mild High Club ‎– Sketches Of Brunswick East - Limited edition 180 gram. Record club monthly record. I love this album.
Maserati ‎– Inventions For The New Season - Reissue, Remastered, Limited Edition, Red/Blue and White Mix
The Mothers ‎– Over-Nite Sensation - Picked this up at the same show as the Allman Brothers Fillmore East.
Nathaniel Eras ‎– Unearthed - White Vinyl
Pavement ‎– Slanted And Enchanted - 120 gram/reissue
Pink Floyd ‎– Wish You Were Here - Found in a collection I bought.
Shellac ‎– At Action Park - 165 gram
Slint ‎– Tweez - 2004 Reissue
Swans ‎– To Be Kind - Picked up at their second to last show.
Swans ‎– The Glowing Man - Picked up at their second to last show.
Talking Heads ‎– The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads - 2013 180 gram reissue I got with some Amazon credit.
Talking Heads ‎– Talking Heads: 77 - Original press.
Talking Heads ‎– Fear Of Music - Original press.
Talking Heads ‎– Remain In Light - Original Press.
Tom Waits ‎– Mule Variations - Limited Edition, Remastered, 180 gram Clear w/ Black Smoke. This this is amazing.
Tom Waits ‎– Closing Time - 2010 180 gram reissue.
Tom Waits ‎– Franks Wild Years - Reissue.
Tucky Buzzard ‎– Buzzard! - Sealed dollar record? Yes please.
Vulfpeck ‎– The Beautiful Game - Limited Edition
Wildildlife ‎– Give In To Live - Limited edition/Multi-colored
The Wytches ‎– Annabel Dream Reader - Frownland posted this and I found it cheap as f*ck.

Whoever inherits this when I croak is getting hooked up.

I can be your sole inheritor.

Your boat sailed.

Exo never forgives, and never forgets.

Vinyl Thread Six Pack

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

Nice six pack, Frownie. :)


1. What is the oldest record that you own?

Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

In terms of monetary value, I'd say an original copy of Introducing the Beatles that I bought from the cutout bin at Kresge's back around 1975.

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

That my mother didn't buy? I'd say it was the Kinks' Kinkdom. I played that record to death.

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?


When I was little I 'inherited' several of these from a former resident apparently. I don't really have a favorite but the albums included the Monkees' first two albums and something from the Tremelowes. My Aunt did give me one of her Chubby Checker albums once

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.


No
6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

My Beatles' collection including the Bootlegs

Awesome idea!!

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

Discogs can sometimes suck because pressings ca have missing info but I'm pretty sure the four shellac 78's that I have from the USSR is the oldest. There are tracks from soviet films from 1943 and I can only assume they're from the same time period.

https://img.discogs.com/nlnEQZKwTmN8...-4804.jpeg.jpg

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

I have records that might sell for a bit more than this but I have a silver picture disc of Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta that is super hard to find any lower than $150. NObody likes giving them up so as far as value goes I'd say that.

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta. Bought it on their website when I was 14. I think it was only like $20. ow it's worth a lot as mentioned above. I also bought Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F#A#∞ right after as well. They were my two firsts.

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

Not the best Waits album but my dads copy of Foreign Affairs helped usher in my love affair of Tom Waits.

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

I honestly think I have a sh*t ton that I don't even know about because I bought them second hand. I did buy The Story of Abner Jay on RSD last year. Others that I know off the top of my head is a green edition of The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack, Mewithoutyou's Ten Stories on purple wax, and a 180 gram RE of Miles Davis's 'Round About Midnight.

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

I have a few.

Original Press of Naked City by John Zorn
Brighter Days by Stanton Davis's Ghetto Mysticism.
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

I also have discography goals. I have a complete Talking Heads LP collection but some include RE's. I'd like it to be original pressings. I have a long way to go to achieve my Smiths and Zappa collections.

By the way, holy grail usually refers to an album you're seeking.

Fair enough. I was wondering what you meant by holy grail anyway.

Maybe the original Beatles' Yesterday and Today butcher cover then.

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

I have a number of 1930s big band scroll label Victrola 78s, '40s Vogue picture records, an Edison diamond disc, and a shelf of Edison wax cylinders (do they count?) manufactured between 1896 and 1915.

https://i.imgur.com/CdgZj4Nl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2gzpczLl.jpg

My favorite cylinder record is "Don't Take My Darling Boy Away" (1915) by J Philips and Helen Clark. The song is a mother's plea that the captain not take the last of her children off to The Great War.



But a friend of mine has me beat with this Dictaphone he found curbside on trash day.

https://i.imgur.com/n05D1Zml.jpg

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

A number of my favorite LPs and box sets hoovered at between $3-500 but I believe the most I’ve ever shelled out for a single release was about $550 in 2012 for The Disintegration Loops.

From the official release page:

The remastered collection was released in a limited edition of 2,000, complete with a 5xCD version, 63-minute DVD, and 144-page coffee table book with photos and liner notes by Basinski, Antony, David Tibet (Current 93), Ronen Givony (Wordless Music), and Michael Shulan (National September 11 Memorial & Museum).

In addition to all four volumes, the reissue includes two previously unreleased orchestral performances: one recorded live during a Wordless Music event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 11, 2011, and one recorded at the 54th Venice Biennale.

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3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

I started crate digging at local junktique shops around 2000 but wasn't tracking purchases for the first ten years. The earliest specific title I recall buying was James Brown's Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo Pt. 3 from a used bookstore on 3/7/09.

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

Graham Nash's Songs for Beginners was part of my late father's collection, and it will forever remain close to my heart.

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

I have a few. I picked up the clear vinyl 7 Skies H3 excerpt from The Flaming Lips’ 24-Hour Song Skull in a silver foil jacket, as well as Tom Waits’ “Lucinda” 7-inch.

https://i.imgur.com/BmTKde7l.jpg

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

Screen Gemz (the earliest incarnation of Underworld) produced one lone single sold from the boot of Karl's car - "Teenage Teenage" b/w "I Just Can't Stand Cars." It's oddball punk with garage production quality. Silly stuff but the single sells for $239-$389 when it surfaces, purely for historical value. I'd love to get my hands on a copy.

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

An original 45 of Thank You/Everybody is a Star by Sly and the Family Stone that I found in the free bin at a punk store for some reason. It's in really ****ing good condition so I'm really surprised I found it there.

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

Probably #1 monetarily? I wouldn't be sure about that. To me, my most valuable record would be my Unwound box set. Or my Is a Real Boy box set. Or White Light from the Mouth of Infinity.

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

Bridge by Red House Painters

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

Slow Train Comin by Seldom Scene and Dire Straits' self-titled

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

Not that I know of.

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

The fukin Basinski boxset that Innerspaceboy has

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

I'm not really sure. The oldest one that comes to mind is a mid-50s Schoenberg piano works collection, but I'm too lazy to really track down my oldest one.

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

If it wasn't beat to hell, my copy of Concert for Bangladesh could be worth $65-100. But it's beat to hell. I have a Euro-release of Boom Bip & Doseone's Circle that I might be able to sell to a completionist for top dollar if I hold onto it for long enough.

Highest personal value? Obviously TMR, even if it's a reprint.

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

It was actually a gift. My mom got a nice vinyl player at a garage sale that my dad hooked up to some high fidelity PAs (which have since been sold off :() when I was about 11. So at a field trip, I talked my group and chaperone into a musty record store and came along Moving Pictures by Rush and picked it up. She tossed it on a couple of times to please me, but vinyl/albums weren't really her thing--she just dug the radio.

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

I had Sgt. Pepper's on vinyl until I took it over to my friend's place at about 14 years old because he had a turntable and was starting to get into it. Our vinyl party got busted because our obvious teenage ass voices bothered the neighbours during our smoke out breaks and I ditched without thinking about the vinyl. My friend who I left the record with moved away not two weeks later (I think there were some tweaker parents in the mix) and his number stopped working and I had to get high to the CD version from then on.

These days? Also the Concert for Bangladesh collection because of the Ravi Shankar set.

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

Nah.

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

Loop by the Velvet Underground

The best thing that they've done imo and the most elusive material

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

I don't know, I'd have to look through my whole collection

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

Not sure, probably 'The White Album' (depending on the serial number)

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

The Mothers of Invention - Live in Uddel (1970) ''Piknik''

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

Don't think so no

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

Chunga’s Revenge - Japanese 10-track promo sample blue label issue

How can I check the value of my records? Like what do I need to check, in terms of pressing, numbers and that.

Search for the record on Discogs to get a general idea. If you want your records specifically, look for the catalog number and google it. They're pretty easy to find, just look for a code around the edges of the cover.

1. What is the oldest record that you own?

The Mothers Of Invention - 'We're Only In It For The Money'

2. What is the most valuable record that you own (can be based on monetary or personal value)?

Not sure what is worth the most money, so I will go with...

El-P - 'I'll Sleep When You're Dead'

3. What is the first record that you've purchased yourself?

I honestly cannot remember, but probably 'Souvlaki' or 'Surfer Rosa'

4. If you have any, what is your favourite hand-me-down album?

Answer to Q1.

5. Do you have any RSD releases? Name some or all if you do.

I do not believe so.

6. What is your "holy grail" of vinyl?

Don't care enough to have one.

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Ta.

Additional tip - if your records are modern enough to have barcodes on them, download the free Discogs app. It has a barcode button on the main menu that enables your camera and pulls up the exact pressing based on your shot of the album's code.

When I cataloged my first few thousand LPs I used a similar scanner with Discogs retrieval and had my entire collection cataloged and indexed in no time at all.

Thanks a lot mate. I didn't see this until now.

Cheers.